Clothes-rack.



R. V. D. STOUTENBURGH.

CLOTHES RACK.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1914.

' Patented Oct. 5, 1915.

ROBERT V. D. STOUTENBURGH, OF HOLLIS, NEW YORK.

CLOTHES-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1915.

Application filed June 24, 1914. Serial No. 846,959.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT V. D. STOUTEN- BURGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hollis, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Racks, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a clothes rack, especially suited for supporting trousers, and which is simple in construction and easily assembled and taken apart, so that it may be readily packed and transported from place to place and set up whenever it may be desired to use the same.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates the invention, Figure 1 is a front perspective view of the complete rack; Fig. 2'

is a similar View of the rack with the cross rods removed and illustrating the manner of connecting the stay rods to the side bars; Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the rack; and, Fig. 4 is a detail view showing an end of one of the stay rods.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a supporting bar adapted to be attached to a door, wall, or other support by suitable means, such as the screws 2. The bar 1 is provided with screw eyes 3 adapted to receive the hooks 4 which are attached to the upper rear edges of flat side bars 5, which form parts of the rack.

As shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, the side bars are connected together at their upper and lower ends by stay rods 6, 7, and 8, and the bars are connected at their forward edges by cross-bars 9. The bars 9, which support the clothing, are provided 'with right angle hooks 10 at their ends,

adapted to engage eyes 11 which project from the forward edges of the side bars. These clothes supporting rods may be readily removed, as will be obvious, by lifting the rods upwardly, so as to remove the hooks from the eyes. The stay rods 6, 7, and 8 have acute-angled hooks 12 at their ends adapted to engage eyes 13 on the inner faces of the side bars In assembling the rack, the supporting bar 1 is secured to the wall, in horizontal position, and the side bars 5 are then connected to the eyes 3 by means of the hooks 4. The side bars, it will be noted, are loosely suspended and may turn about their vertical axes, and they may also be swung forwardly from the wall. In order to connect the stay rods 6-, 7, and 8 with the side bars, the latter are swung about their vertical axes into the positions shown in Fig. 2, when the acute-angled hooks 12 may be readily inserted in'the eyes 13. The side bars are then turned until they lie in planes at right angles to the supporting wall, and in this position the cross-bars 9 may be placed in position by passing the hooks thereon through the oppositely disposed eyes on the side bars. hen all of the rods are in their positions, the side bars will be held parallel and in planes at right angles to the supporting wall, and the stay rods 6, 7, and

8 will be locked against removal by their acute-angled hooks.

In order to take the rack apart, all of the rods 9 are first removed; the side bars are then turned about their axes into the position shown in Fig. 2, when the stay rods can be readily removed; thereafter the side bars may be unhooked from the bar 1 and thellatter detached from the supporting wal In placing clothing upon the rack, one of the cross rods 9 is removed, and a pair of trousers or other garment is hung upon the rod. The operator then takes lfold of one of the stay rods, 7 or 8, at the bottom of the rack, and by pulling forward the lower end of the rack, swings it to a horizontal position, and thereupon replaces the rod with the article of clothing thereon upon the rack, the clothing extending downwardly at the rear, as indicated at 14 in dotted lines. When trousers are supported upon a number of the bars, the rack will also act as a clothes press for the reason that the weight of the clothing is carried by the forward edges of the side bars, while the latter are suspended from their upper rear edges, so that the lower portion of the rack, with its loafi, tends to swing toward the door or wa It will be evident that the rack described above is a desirable article for travelers, because of the ease-with which the rack may be assembled and taken apartfor transportation. The ease with which articles of clothing may be placed upon and removed connections between said support and the upper ends of said bars permitting the bars to turn about Vertical axes and to swing forwardly, stay rods adapted to fit between the bars, connecting means between said rods and the bars adapted to interlock when the bars are in planes at right angles to the wall and to unlock when the side bars are turned from said positions, and one or more. cross nections between said support and the ups wardly, eyes arranged in pairs on said bars,

one or more stay-rods having acute-angled hooks for engaging certain of the eyes, and 20 one or more rods having right-angled hooks for engaging others of the eyes.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT V. I). STOUTENBURGH. Witnesses:

WM. J. PRICE, WM. STOUTENBURGH. 

